This is the cleverest piece of viral marketing I’ve seen in a while. A few weeks back, Warner Brothers released a one-page teaser website for upcoming Batman film The Dark Knight, titled “I Believe in Harvey Dent”, and featuring a fake election poster for new character Harvey Dent, a district attorney who fellow nerds know […]

Nice tutorial, I can see me using this for effects other than just flames.
Photoshop - how to create a realistic Gas Flame
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I’ve just discovered an excellent site for fonts, available to download free of charge for non-commercial use (we wouldnt have it any other way here at the ‘hog). Maybe I’m behind the times and you know about it already but just in case check it - dafont.com. I was looking for one font in particular […]

I love tea and must confess to being a Nambarrie man through and through. Earlier though I read at BusinessEye that Nambarrie’s great tea rival Punjana had launched a new site with Belfast company StreamOn. I went along to check it out after reading that the site had won the recent Belfast Business Awards, Best […]

“After a fascinating debate, or two, that revealed how deeply you feel about art, we now have a definitive list of the 50 works that demand to seen at least once in a lifetime. These are the masterpieces worth a pilgrimage or, if you are lucky enough to live near one of them, an infinity […]

Thats what im calling them anyway.
Been wanting to know how to do these for ages!
Heres how

Myself and Mr. Jordan were talking about this the other day, and I thought I’d share it with the rest of you.
Recent versions (2005-onwards I think) of Apple’s PowerBooks and iBooks come with with “Sudden Motion Sensor” technology, which helps to prevent disk failures if the computer is dropped. When dropped, the computor will instantly […]

This is the actual card George Lucas sent James Cameron to congratulate him on the opening-weekend box office success of Titanic. Bunch of smug, self-congratulatory feckers if you ask me, but nice design!

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The next version of osX (Leopard) will provide the ability for designers to use SVG files and ‘Resolution Independant’ Graphics in their websites.
SVG files are scalable vector files that right now can be viewed on apples Safari browser (like a pdf in a web browser)
Resolution Independant graphics, a new Quartz-driven technology will soon let […]

I came across the new DV8 website recently whilst checking out befast studio Front’s portfolio. I have a passing interest in DV8 - I used to work for the former owners before Eastwoods Clothing bought the rights to use the name. Anyway, I was keen to see how the site would end up because I really liked what Eastwoods had done to the DV8 brand and I have a high opinion of Front….

1000 mini app icons from Birmingham based designer FamFamFam, worth bookmarking for shopping sites alone.
Visit wee icons and whot not

“Perspective shots of grocery store aisles are distorted back out of perspective so that the shelf forms a rectangle in the picture plane instead of trapezoid. Then four passes of motion blur at 999 to arrive at a kind of loose average or wash of the shelf’s chromatic contents.”
Beautiful

The age old argument of when flash should and shouldnt be used.
I think this is a clear cut example of excellent flash work used at the right time.
When the budget means that you can advertise the url (no google) and the experience makes you want to learn more…
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This is a brilliant resource library! Visit protolize
This is a fun fun fun game Play Shooting Stars

Theres lots of scribblings on the web today about the use of ugly design/lack of design to make a website sell.
Here is the article that started it all and a link to the full story.
I wouldnt mind some comment, as it is a toughy….
At the Northern Voice conference I met Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish.com. […]

The BBC are asking for your ideas in order to reboot their website. Personally, I think the current version is in no way in need of a makeover, but with prizes galore for highly-rated entries, why not give it a shot? It’ll be hard with competition like this, though.

The astounding credit sequence for ‘Thank you for Smoking’ is another great example of the abundance of creativity in modern film production. Hats off to Stephen Coles for trying to name all fonts present.

A recent eyetracking study conducted by Jakob Nielsen reveals a recurring F-shaped pattern for reading web content.

So I just got word today that Clockwork Orange have just had their website redeveloped courtesy of Tibus after their disastrous foray into the world of eCommerce a few years back. The whole design and approach certainly disappoint.

Drew McClellan and his 5 most important considerations when planning a site.
Sums things up nicely…

When I packed in the BBC seven months ago and began freelancing, I thought it’d be no more than a month before I tucked my tail between my legs and headed down to Grafton Recruitment. But somehow it — “it” being full-time freelancing — has worked out. Not only have I turned down three jobs […]

Colin, Ciaron and Me Self went to the last one of these and it was great craic all together.
Dont worry it aint as poserish as you would expect from a night out that Jordan would go to.
Design folks from Dublin/UK show their stuff and how they got the contracts, etc…
Candy in Association with IDI, […]

Anyone had a go at this?
Its jiggery-pokery with shutterspeeds and contrast to create wicked awesome images.
(High Dynamic Range) Apparently anyone can do it…
HDR Tokyo

HDR New York

Saw this today and thought is was funny, a story about how good design is based on the C.R.A.P. principle where C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximity, and when the boss tells you that your design is crap, they’re actually giving you positive reinforcement.
Okay, that last part was made up, sorry. “Crappy work” is […]